Portraits and dreams : photographs and stories by children of the Appalachians, 1976-1982, 2009-2018 / Wendy Ewald ; with a text by Ben Lifson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lifson, Ben, writer of supplementary textual content.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ewald, Wendy.

Photography, Artistic.

Photography of children.

Appalachian Region, Southern--Pictorial works.

Appalachian Region, Southern.

Southern Appalachian Region.

Genre:

Pictorial works.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

159 pages : illustrations (some color), map, portraits ; 26 cm

Edition:

Updated and expanded edition.

Other Title:

Photographs and stories by children of the Appalachians, 1976-1982, 2009-2018

Place of Publication:

[London] : MACK, [2020]

Summary:

"When Wendy Ewald arrived in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains in 1975, she began a project that aimed to reveal the lives, intimate dreams and fears of local schoolchildren. Tasked with finding authentic ways of representing the lives of these children, she gave each of them a camera and interviewed them about their childhood in the mountains. Through these intriguing transcripts and photographs, we discover the lives of families as seen through the eyes of their children: where domestic, rural life is understood with startling openness and depth. In Portraits and Dreams, life's most mysterious realities -- love, loss, violence, death, new life -- are given voice through an altogether novel discovery: the camera. We learn the eloquence and originality with which children see the world and we see a generous new way of engaging children in the possibilities of the photographic medium. This revised and expanded edition of Ewald's now-rare book, first published in 1985, and called 'An American masterpiece,' offers access to a different and broadened view of the rural south over the span of 35 years, and includes contemporary pictures and stories by eight of the students from the original publication." -- Publisher's description

Contents:

Record of a summery imagination / Ben Lifson

1976-1982. Self portraits

Animals

Family Portraits

Dreams

I arrived in Kentucky in February of 1976 / Wendy Ewald

2009-2018. Reunion 2009 / Wendy Ewald

Denise Dixon Benge

Sue Dixon Brashear

Willie Whitaker

Delbert Shepard

Gary Crase

Darlene Watts Howard

Robert Dean Smith

Scott Huff.

Contains:

Ewald, Wendy. Photographs. Selections.

ISBN:

1912339897

9781912339891

OCLC:

1153640878